fantasy
pronunciation
How to pronounce fantasy in British English:
UK [ˈfæntəsi]
How to pronounce fantasy in American English:
US [ˈfæntəsi]
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- Noun:
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it
- something many people believe that is false
Word Origin
- fantasy
- fantasy: see fancy
- fantasy (n.)
- early 14c., "illusory appearance," from Old French fantaisie, phantasie "vision, imagination" (14c.), from Latin phantasia, from Greek phantasia "power of imagination; appearance, image, perception," from phantazesthai "picture to oneself," from phantos "visible," from phainesthai "appear," in late Greek "to imagine, have visions," related to phaos, phos "light," phainein "to show, to bring to light" (see phantasm). Sense of "whimsical notion, illusion" is pre-1400, followed by that of "fantastic imagination," which is first attested 1530s. Sense of "day-dream based on desires" is from 1926. In early use in English also fantasie, phantasy, etc. As the name of a fiction genre, from 1949.
Example
- 1. Advertising for airlines concentrates on the fantasy of sleep .
- 2. Is the dream of democracy in hong kong a psychedelic fantasy ?
- 3. I believe global warming is real and heaven is a fantasy .
- 4. But this is no fantasy yarn .
- 5. Fantasy can be confounded with reality .